Untitled (Walter & Tulip Kuhlman)
Artist
Anne Noggle
(American, 1922 - 2005)
Datecirca 1985
Mediumchromogenic print
DimensionsImage: 12 3/4 × 19 3/8 in. (32.4 × 49.2 cm)
Support: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Support: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of the Anne Noggle Foundation, 2016
Object number2016.2.23
DescriptionImage of a man and a woman seen from behind, facing a landscape with large body of water and foothills. Woman is at right and has curly red hair, teal bathrobe, and has her arm around the man’s waist.eMuseum Notes
Noggle
used color film only sporadically. For this portrait of her friend Walter Kuhlman and his second wife Tulip at
their home in Sausalito, the coastal California light may have inspired her to
shoot in color. Kuhlman was a prominent Abstract Expressionist painter in the
San Francisco Bay Area.
Walter Kuhlman (1918-2009) was a
core member of the San Francisco Abstract Expressionists and lived in
Sausalito. He was a friend of Noggle’s and here she photographs him at home
with his second wife, Tulip. According to Noggle’s friend and studio assistant
Jim Holbrook, who examined the print with curator Katherine Ware in December
2016, Tulip was jealous of Walter’s friendship with Noggle which led to them
asking her to leave during a visit to the house, which ended the friendship.
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